Monday, February 15, 2010

Al Qaeda in Pune? Quite easily

After 9/11, my publication at the time did the entire gamut of why Pune is a hard terrorist target. I then went undercover to look at the possibility of Al Qaeda sleeper cells in Pune. Far-fetched? Not to someone who lives, breathes and eats the city. Pune has for long been home to thousands of foreign Islamic students.
Sure enough, in one of the African ‘clubs’ near Quartergate, frequented by Muslim Sudanese and Somalians, I found evidence of Al Qaeda support.
I informed my cop contacts and they took over. I moved to soft-core journalism shortly after. Sadly.